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i am trying to use apple keyboad on my windows-7 pc.
i read the KB article from apple saying that install applekeyboard driver.
i get this error " you must install 64-bit DPinst.exe"
i can not find any info about that except this link below....

How to renew an expired cert on a windows 2003 Domain controller.  Howto check for autoenrollment and force autoenrollment.

I have a group policy on my network that forces the company wallpaper on to everybody's desktops.  Every so often a user will log in and they get this error message saying:
 "Active Desktop Recovery."  

Then there is a button that says...

How the heck do I map my shared network drives in SBS 2008? I have batch files that I have written in SBS 2003, but I do not see where we can use them in SBS 2008.

Hi,

I have made a change in GPO.

How to force Update group policy on all machines in the network.
Where can i see the Replication time between DC's
Regards
SHarath

This is the error that I am getting in IIS on an Exchange 2007 Standard  Edition 64 bit Server.
This CA Root Certificate is not trusted.  To enable trust, install this certificate in the Trusted Root Cerification Authorities Store.  How do i do...

I am getting a large number of large tmp flies (about 170-190MB's each) on the C:\Windows\Temp Folder on an SBS 2003 Server.  Does anyone know why these are being created and how to control them?
Thanks.

When working in a Window environment eg  XP/SP3  the   Groove Folder Synchronization icon is appearing. Which is unables me to copy the multiple file from the USB pen drive it say the file exists
which I am not even to overwrite my file from the...

When I use Internet Explorer 8 to open http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/, I get a red window and the message  This website has been reported as unsafe
ccollomb.free.fr
We recommend that you do not continue to this website.
   Go to my home...

Hello,

I just finished replacing our old Domain Controllers with new Hardware and Windows Server 2008, and I need help with the time synchronization.

Here is my current network:
4 Domain Controllers with Windows Server 2008
4 Separate...

I received an e-mail in Outlook Inbox from USPS Service <status_item@usps.com> with the attachment Label_Parcel_USPS_13-114.zip

However, the ip address in the e-mail message header is 192.244.203.83

How can I find out "who is" or "what is"...

Hi there.
I have problem with one installation of windows 2008 server Enterprise with Active Directory and  Hyper-V virtualization on it.
When the OS starts  it boots all the way to the logon screen, but when it's time for the logon screen to...

my event log keeps showing The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> took x second(s) to handle the notification event (CreateSession).
my operating system is sbs 2008 server 64 bit, this never happened previously with the old 32 bit 2003...

Hey guys, I feel stupid but I cannot seem to find a link (that works) to download the .adm files for controlling IE once we deploy it to our AD domain. (We don't want to install IE 8 on our DCs)

I found a kbb, but its for RC1 and the link is...

We recently had a new model of PC and I am having trouble deploying the operating system to it using SCCM.

It crashes during the operating System deployment with the error code 0x80070002.  The PC then restarts and although Windows does boot,...

hi,

we have now tried everyting: disable time syncs between host and guest, use windows time service, dont use it - results are still the same: every now and then, the event log shwos events from the kernel with id 1 stating "the system time...

When deploying a bunch of windows 7 updates after the machine reboots it runs through the stage 3 of 3 100% complete and then just stays on stage 3 of 3 configuring updates with no percentage complete.

It is as it has completed and hung. I...

After Spybot S&D run, WIndows Xp was booting and immediately shutting down, I folllowed the advice on this post:

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/logs-out-imedialtly-after-i-log-in/116408.html
 
Here's how I fixed it:

First: I...

I am trying to install the following KB2656352 security hotfix for dot net framework 2.0.

However am getting the following error " None of the that are addressed by this software update are installed on this computer"

I have also tried...

I'm having a very, very hard time trying to configure the "Network Discovery" feature on Windows Vista at a domain level, using Group Policy Objects (GPO).

I administer a domain with about 100 clients (about 90 Vista machines + about 10 XP)...

Hello,
After a hiatus from IT, I have just got back in the game, and have run into a SBS 2011 install and cannot believe the idiocy of the new GPP system. Suffice it to say, I am completely flummoxed by the new supposedly wonderful GPP system...

Hello,

I'm trying to trim whitespace from a string variable.  I've figured out how to left trim, but can't figure out how to right trim.  There are some examples on the web, but to work they make assumptions like the maximum length of string,...

I have WinHttpAutoProxySvc running on most of the servers in our environment. I am trying to clean up the services and event logs and I am finding this service in my event logs repeatedly. Is this service needed, if so who/what needs it, and why...

Hi Experts
Current, i got a script that enables me to view the current settings of the computer's name...
But upon display the name, i would like the user to have the option to change the existing computer name or to quit the script. may i...

Installing 2 5 port ethernet Ncomputing devices on a 4-5 year old dual core Dell Optiplex 755 formatted with Windows 7 and these drivers are missing based on the HID. I've read regarding it is a sound driver but says Serial and PCI controller...

I am not sure why this is happening other then my time-service seems to error out before my users lose connection to the server. They can connect right back but it is kicking them out of their applications that run off the server. We run Sunbelt...

Actually, I am following step 2 of the blog http://blogs.technet.com/nishants/archive/2009/05/22/how-to-setup-variations-in-moss-2007.aspx to install the multlingual files to windows 2008 R2 server.
1.Download the Windows Server 2008 Language...

Using the control userpasswords2 command, I unticked "Users must use a user name.........", but forgot to put in a password.  Now on startup the system cant find a password so it prompts for a password, which I have not entered. So I am locked...

Hi,
I've posted my inquiry sometime ago, but got as of yet no response.
The whole story is reported below, but let me phrase my question is the simplest term: Is there anyone who knows how to solve a WMI problem based on a WMI Diiag report?
I...

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I am getting a huge amount of these errors. I have replaced the drivers and adjusted the setting of the printers but no luck

Server is a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server, running the latest printer drivers. They connect to the file...

The Terminal Services Active X control (mstscax.dll) does not match the version of the Client Shell.
After you apply a Windows XP service pack, the remote desktop session fails
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After installing windows updates my machine now BSOD. I can find no info regarding this BSOD error message 0x05001309.

I'm unable to boot into Safe mode. I also decrypted my machine, which had pointsec on it in order to run a Windows...

Upgraded from an old server to a new server and created a new Domain called Company.local (it was the exact same name as the old server) Server name is Company2003 and all workstations are XP SP2 Pro. Each workstation was disjoined from the old...

I am having WMI problems. This originally came up while trying to install SMS Client. When trying to install the log shows the following errors:

MSI: Setup was unable to create the WMI namespace CCM
The error code is 8007007F      ccmsetup
MSI:...

There was a previous question asked by someone stating the following and I am having the same exact problem:
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Today morning we've found an server that has somehow crashed over the weekend.

It's an Dell Poweredge 2950...

Hi
I have created a job with robocopy GUI to copy everything from a share on one server to a share on another.
This is working ! However, I need to stop or pause the job and can't see where the job is running from to do so. I expected something...

W2003 server running SQL 2000. Open up enterprise manager or even run MMC and the error
occurs. I have the lasted and greatest SP on the box.

How do I shutdown and restart ?

Can I reainstall MMC? and how?

We receive these "error level" secure channel untrusted certificate authority errors constantly on a bunch of servers.

SChannel Event 36882: The certificate received from the remote server was issued by an untrusted certificate authority....

Hello experts!  I am in need of a simple(?) unattend.xml file for my Windows 7 Enterprise deployment.  I need it to do these things:

set "Country or Region" to 'United States'
set "Time and Currency" to 'English (United States)'
set...

Hi Everyone,

I need to enable Javascript on one of our Terminal Servers running Windows 2003. How do I use group policy to populate enabling Javascript instead of manually?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon and thank you very much...

Hi Guys

I demoted a windows 2003 domain controller last night but before that I prompted a nother server, so I do have domain controller.
Since I demoted the domain controller something happen to windows sql server and we have to re-join...

I need to copy files to documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\. The problem is that Application Data is localized on some non-english locales. I have no idea which locale the customer has, so I cannot hard code the path. The closest I...

I am trying to edit the restricted group access policies in AD but am getting Access Denied error. I also get access denied when I try to use gpresult.exe.

I went to Start -> Run -> rsop.msc
It says the RSoP snap-in was unable to generate...

In the application part event viewer I am getting
"The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because a composited theme is not in use"
I have Windows Vista Home Premium

I recently  Installed Exchange Server 2007 and some time I receive email from known address but this message go to Quarantined folder , when I checked this message in Quarantined folder I found this message
"Received-SPF: None...

Trying to sync my Outlook 2007 calendar with my online Google account and get the error message that I have outdated time zone information and run MIcrosoft Windows Update or manually restore, which is a link to this kb article ...

I have been seeing this error in the event logs for years in Quickbooks 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. I see it in the Pro, Premium and Enterprise versions. This happens to all the computers in the networks I see. No Viruses or...

I have an "SBSMonitoring" SQL database which is over 4GB in size but is causing problems...

Here are some of the message which im getting in the events logs.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSSQL$SBSMONITORING
Date:         ...

Hey everyone,

I'm not really clear on this...I've got 3 NLB cluster servers that will beused world wide...and I've got to get the Language Packs for German, both Chinese, Japanese, and French on the servers.

I've got the Office 2003 MUI...

Hello,

I'm having issues getting our server and workstations to keep the time synchronised.  This issue also occurs at another site which is totally independent, not connected to one another, and has exact same setup.

Server is SBS 2011...

I have an EventID 1074 "The process C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe (MMUSCHP366) has initiated the restart of computer MMUSCHP366 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Operating System: Recovery (Planned)
 Reason Code:...

We have some 2008 R2 servers that cannot browse the shares of a 2003 box when using "\\server1".  It will open the shares when using "\\ipaddress" and "\\server1.domain".  I can ping the 2003 server by ip address, NetBIOS name, and DNS name. ...

Hello,
Is it safe to delete the directories in C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$?  The directory size is over 500MB.  I need the space on my C drive.  I noticed the names are related to windows updates.

In creating a SQL cluster solution, 2008 Enterprise Sever is not completing "configuring a service or application" process for MSDTC. I always get the same event IDs in event veiwer:
1194, 1069 and 1205. I know that 1194 is a permission issue...

I am trying to enable Windows Backup on Server 2008 R2 to backup my Hyper-V clients.  I have taken care of modifying the registry to support the Hyper-V VSS Writer (added the GUID to the registry).  When I run a backup of the volume that has the...

I didn't understand the answer.  I have gig's of ci files.  The newest is almost 4 gigs.  I can't find any info on there here.  Ideas?

In windows xp pro, is there a registry setting that can be used to simply turn off offline files?

Thanks,

Bill

I have installed Windows 2008 Server on a Dell 2800 server. The server did not have a DVD drive, so the OS was loaded using a bootable USB jump drive.

At bootup, I am presented with 2 choices, Windows 2008 Server, or Windows 2008 Server...

Hi,

How can we run a MST file.
Cant we just double click and run?

Regards
Sharath

Greetings!  I have a Windows Xp/2003 AD environment with 200+ users.  I would like to remove two files out of the doc~settings\all users\desktop folder.  I am using psexec and a batch file to do the job but for whatever reason, am getting errors....

We are working with SBS 2011 and would like to implement a logon script to map shared drives for users based on their group membership. For example, the are a number of shared folder - Finance$, HR$ and Data$ (all hidden shares). There are...

Hello,
We moved our exchange server 2003 (running on windows 2003) to a new location due to a company relocation.  Our Exchange server was a DC as well.  Our primary DC was lost in transit (car accident) and we needed to get the exchange up and...

Hi,

I need to create a script or a .bat file to create a Windows Scheduled Task, however I need to specify in the script or the .bat file that this task should run every 30 mins.

I tried to use the AT command but I was unable to run the...

does anyone know where I can download the vmware tools iso file, when I try to install the vmware tools nothing happens.

Ok so I just set up a new SBS 2008 server and 4 new dell fresh loads with windows 7. On some of the machines I get this message in the SBS console.
SBS 2008 Console - computer online: do not have permission to access information about this...

Hi,
 
I have tried running the Client Push wizard for a single computer and the result is always the same - no SCCM client is installed on the computer and looking at the processes in the target machine the CCMSetup.exe does NOT appear.
The...

We have 3 laptops that came supplied with Windows 7 home edition. Unfortunately they cannot join the domain as they are only home edition versions. Is there a way to install XP on these? I have tried but I always get a BSOD, most likely due to...

Hi,

i'm battling with the virus which redirects every browser to abnow.com

googled it, cannot find anything useful and dont want to reinstall windows 7 x86

please help.

i ran superantispyware  about 5 times in safe mode, it found...

Hello all,
I am currently downgrading a Gateway MA7 which came installed with Vista Home Basic to XP Professional Corperate Service Pack 3.

However, having trouble finding the drivers for this machine, wondered if anyone else had attempted...

I've got a computer that is running Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit and has been doing so quite happily for some months now. The other day it started getting this MS message saying it wasn't genuine.

It clearly is because looking up this error...

I am setting up my cisco ASA for remote VPN, I configured the ASA and Server 2008.  Everything looks correct.

However when I do a AAA Test from the ASA it says Error: Authentication rejected: AAA failure

Equipment
Cisco ASA 5505 ...

Can anyone help me with this one please - I'm banging my head against the table?
I have internet access on the Server. The client PC's authenticate with the Server and can share resources, but can NOT access the internet.

Clients can NOT...

Hello I have a single citrix server for a client. Citrix Xenapp. My users go to the website, loggin and from there the portal will indicate weather or not the computer has the client loaded on the citrix server. If it doesnt it allows you to...

Hi.

Faced completely starnge problems - "SC CREATE service" command does not work if options -obj= and -password= specicified.

Here are examples I have tried:

sc create "EmergencyService" binPath= "C:\share\srvc\XYNTService.exe" type=...

Hi,

I am trying to mount a wim file to a folder using the dism command:

 

but it is coming back with the following error:

 

The dism command is being run from an elevated command prompt, the account is a local admin on the machine...

Hi,

We had a very strange issue on friday, whereby all of the virtual machines on a host, stopped repsonding, we only have 4 hosts and we running HA and DRS.

The machines were all in a hung state when trying to access the console, ie you...

I have a Hewlett-Packard  EliteBook 8440p with Windows XP SP3 that is experiencing a blue
screen error about once per day.  I have opened the mini dump files using Windows Debugger
and the debugger indicates that the problem is caused by...

Hi,

What I am looking for is the registry value to speed up the time out time of a network drive.  When the network drive doesn't exist because the user is off network I want the time out time it looks for the drive to be less.  Does anybody...

Trying to get a web service working under IIS7 on a new Windows 7 development machine.
 No matter what I do, if I select pass through authentication and then test connection, i get
 "Invalid application path" error.  If I connect as my user...

Hi,

I dont know what happened suddenly i am not able to ping some machines in a different location.This problem is with all machines in location A.When pinging location B no responce the same machine we are able to through ip address.

After...

Hello,

We have a Windows 2000 Server that has Oracle 9.2 installed on it. We run an ASP Application on it. This morning users were getting the error - tns could not resolve service name on the ASP pages. When I try to "test" the odbc dsn using...

Hi,

Can we flushdns & Registerdns on all machines in the network.Remotely.

Regards
Sharath

So, I've ran into an issue on a new PC build that I'm helping with.

Hardware is:
Phenom 2 x6 1055t
ASUS Crosshair IV
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 F3-12800CL7D-4GBRH
2x 640 WD Black HD's in Raid0
ATI Radeon Sapphire HD...

Greetings -

Is there a low risk way to force replication of the SYSVOL folder (which I believe FRS handles) with low risk?  For instance, I can force AD replication using repadmin /syncall, but I know that doesn't replicate SYSVOL at the same...

unable to do a print screen in remote desktop when accessing a 2003 Windows Server System which is locked down so user can't do much activity on it but run an App that they need to capture info from.  This is an ongoing problem, was downgraded to...

I am used to HP servers but we have recently gotten a couple PE 2950's in. These servers have LCD readouts on the front that appear to be scrolling the Server Name. I had to change the server name on these in Windows but the LCD still reads the...

I have finally found the real difficulty and what is causing the problems on my computer. Windows Installer is corrupted and is unworkable. I cant delete or install programs, etc.

A year ago I started getting a message on my computer that...

I have two HP DL380 servers . I just installed Windows 2003 R2 ENT SP2. I installed .Net 3.5 SP1 and all of the patches. Now I'm getting this error message on both servers:

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      WinMgmt
Event Category:      None
Event...

I have a simple powershell script that sets a service and starts it.  I want to run this against a list of computers instead of typing each computer in individually... is there a way to do this with powershell?

Hello Experts,

I have an eval version of Windows 2008 server running on a machine for testing and I am using the Hyper V service to run a virtual server within 2008. The virtual server is windows 2003. Both OS's are 64 bit and I was able to...

Where is the group policy setting in SBS 2008 to disable the workstation firewall?

Hi guys,

I had a router blow up on the weekend and had to replace with an asus wireless router.

I copied all the settings and all the port forwards and things seemed to be going well.

the only problem I have is with one of our VPN...

w2k3 AD trust between 2 domains and no firewall in between.  I can ping dc's by fully qualified and netbios name from both sides.  Any ideas as to why this is occuring?  I a mgetting stuck..

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Application Error
Event Category:      (100)
Event ID:      1000
Date:            18-04-2007
Time:            04:28:31
User:            N/A
Computer:      xx
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.3790.3959, faulting module...

Hi,

Each time that reboot the DC that have (DNS, DC, File Server and CA) an error evento to Certification Authority is show with Event ID 91

I did the step in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd299803(WS.10).aspx

1. The ping to...

Hi Experts
Could you provide interview questions and answers for windows cluster (MSCS)
Thanks

Hello All,

Just created an account and thought I would post a simple question.

I want to change my product key within Windows XP Service Pack 3. It was real easy with Service Pack 2, so please skip the sysprep answers. Yes, sysprep is the...

I am looking to recover my system to factory defaults, however I cannot access the recovery partition (which is present in the system). Probably some mbr issue.

thank you